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Journal of Emerging Trends in Educational Research and Policy Studies (JETERAPS) (Vol 1 No 1)
| Abstract: Environmental issues, issues such as the global warming have of late taken centre in world conferences. They are of late the convergence zone for brains right across board as nations look for ways to ameliorate this mind-boggling issue which is somehow threatening the peaceful existence of humanity on the globe. The tackling of this issue requires the concerted efforts of both scientists and artists such as those fronted by oral artists. The purpose of this study was to investigate how a selection of song texts from the Gusii community in Kenya has captured environmental issues and their contribution towards environmental conservation. The study first employed a deconstructive analysis of the selected song texts in order to arrive at the multiple meanings/ideas which are espoused by the selected songs and how they champion for the efforts of nature conservation. Keeping in mind that art is a form of ideological state apparatuses which "hails/interpellates" its subjects to think in a particular way; the deconstructive analysis of the song texts was thus augmented by Louis Althusser's version of Marxism to demonstrate that the ideas generated and transmitted by the song texts hail their subjects towards rededicating their efforts towards the conserving of nature. At the conclusion, a strand of psychoanalysis is used to tie up the discussion. The study was limited to a deconstructive and Marxist analysis of five song texts purposively sampled from twenty five songs which were collected during the fieldwork session in the Kisii region of Western Kenya. Snowball research method was used during the collecting of the song texts from various artists. Equally, interviews were used alongside the deconstructive analysis so as to get an informed understanding of the song texts. The purpose of the study is to demonstrate that when tapped properly, performance of oral poetry is an effective vehicle in augmenting the already existing efforts of environmental conservation. The significance of this study is that its findings go a long way to contribute and augment the existing efforts of addressing environmental issues in the world. It is equally the intent of this study to reawaken and engineer a variety of discourses all of which will be aimed at stepping up the efforts of conserving our environment |
| Keywords: oral poetry, environment, conservation, deconstruction, signifier and signified |
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